The "memory-experience gap" for affect does not reflect a general memory bias to overestimate past affect.
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DOI: 10.1037/emo0001404
Abstract: Retrospective self-reports are widely used to measure affect and well-being. But researchers have long assumed that people overestimate affective experiences in retrospect and that retrospective self-reports are thus biased. This is because of the memory-experience… read more here.
Keywords: memory bias; experience gap; memory; memory experience ... See more keywords